To effectively fight the unlawful drug trade, a legislation is being amended in Thailand in order that anybody caught in possession of multiple meth tablet will now be thought-about a drug supplier. Minister of Public Health Anutin Charnvirakul announced this change yesterday, stating that the present regulation has been exploited by those who actually intend to sell the drugs.
The harsh new regulation will view anyone with more than one capsule as having the medicine with intent to sell, as a substitute of the present normal of 15 pills or fewer being thought of for private use only.
The modification, which has already been prepared by the Committee on Treatment and Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts is awaiting a signature from the Health Minister. It will then go to the Cabinet for their sign-off earlier than in the end being printed in the Royal Gazette, making the legislation official.
Authorities aim to offer a extra decisive legal measure in opposition to the drug commerce. They hail it as a measure to avoid wasting society, families, and young folks from the evils of medication. Improved says this modification will prevent the exploitation of the regulation by drug traders, dismissing suggestions that prisons would shortly be overcrowded by this draconian resolution.
“The purpose the committee reached this decision is that we need to be more decisive and see effective enforcement of the regulation after it was instructed that we seem to fear there’s not sufficient room in jail for drug convicts.”
Anutin Charnvirakul, who can be the deputy prime minister, expressed confidence that the amendment will make it more difficult for drug merchants to function and can help reduce the variety of young individuals who fall victim to the dangers of drug abuse.
In a separate incident, an army patrol in Thailand made a big drug bust, seizing 21 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, packaged as Chinese tea, from the bank of the Mekong River. The Surasak Montree Task Force acquired a tip-off that the drugs have been arriving from Laos and arrange a stakeout on the riverbank..